Chapter 478 Gayao’s thoughts

Beihuan Royal Court.

Jia Yao walked out of the king's tent with deep thoughts.

When you come outside and look up into the distance, you can see people working on the land around the royal court.

Over the years, many tribes behind Beihuan have changed from living by the water to settling down. However, when the water and grass are plentiful, each tribe will send people out to graze.

Before winter comes, those who go out to graze will drive their livestock back.

The people who stayed in the tribe learned to farm.

Just because the time suitable for farming in Beihuan is very short, only one season of food can be grown every year.

Moreover, the types of food are also very limited.

But this season's food is the lifeblood of many Beihuan tribes.

Before, they couldn't organize an army because they didn't have enough food.

Ga Yao never wanted to experience this kind of dilemma again.

Now, except for a very small number of necessary guards and servants in the royal court, almost everyone was driven to work by Ga Yao.

Before today, Gayao himself worked in the fields.

Even if they harvest one more bucket of grain, it will be good for them.

She has received news that all the livestock of the remote tribes in the east have been eaten up. Many people are relying on wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger. Some people have starved to death.

The situation at Wang Ting is better.

But, it's just better.

The tribes on the Royal Court's side do have a lot of livestock.

But no amount of livestock can support people to eat.

This year they have almost eaten all their livestock, and within ten years they will not be able to recover their livestock numbers.

But it’s not okay not to eat livestock, otherwise, even people in the royal court will starve to death.

Of course, this is not the most important thing!

If Da Qian gave up his troops, they would be able to survive until the autumn harvest.

It's a pity that she knows that Yunzheng will never give up!

Now is when Beihuan is at his weakest, and Yunzheng will never let go of such an opportunity to attack.

Now, in addition to the two thousand guards of the royal court, they also maintain a standing force of 20,000.

This is already the limit of limits!

What she is thinking now is to disband some more troops or retreat further?

However, if they retreat further, their living space will be further compressed.

Without troops to defend, their living space will also be compressed.

Once their living space is compressed to a certain extent, they will be blocked and beaten by Yunzheng and his army!

In their current situation, there is almost no chance of winning.

This seems to be a dead end that cannot be broken no matter what!

"Ugh……"

Jiayao let out a long breath, rubbed his swollen and painful head vigorously, and smiled wryly at himself: "It's not even been a year! Beihuan has fallen to this point..."

Last autumn, Beihuan aggressively threatened Daqian for food at the border.

Now, Beihuan has reached the edge of collapse.

There is no chance to even sue for peace!

Just when Jia Yao had a headache, a guard hurriedly came to report: "Princess, Master Budu and the others have arrived."

"it is good!"

Jiayao rubbed his head again and walked out of the king's tent.

Back at the king's tent, Fudu, Guiyou and Fang Yunshi were already waiting there.

Seeing Jia Yao, the three of them immediately saluted: "I've seen..."

"Okay, no gifts!"

Jia Yao waved his hand tiredly and motioned for the three of them to sit down, "Let's make a long story short. I want to take back all the people on the two wings of Huangshahai. After everyone evacuates to the line of Huangshahai, Wulian Mountain and Cangyunling, the two wings People are stationed in the Modong and Moxi corridors respectively..."

Listening to Gayao's words, the three of them couldn't help but look at each other.

However, none of the three spoke.

Although they were unwilling to do so, they knew in their hearts that there was nothing they could do.

Now Beihuan is trying to avoid war and recuperate in order to survive the most difficult time.

The ancestors of Beihuan were also beaten back to this line hundreds of years ago.

Although their current situation is better than that of their ancestors, it is not much better.

It is indeed a wise move to retreat across the board.

Fudu pondered for a moment, frowned and said, "I don't have any objection to retreating, but what I'm worried about now is that even if we retreat, the enemy will not cease their troops!"

They wanted to retreat now, but the enemy force was at full strength.

I was afraid that if they retreated, the enemy would still pursue them and fight fiercely.

That way, their room to move will become smaller and smaller.

"I see."

Jiayao smiled bitterly and said: "We must retreat now! After we retreat, even if the enemy wants to fight, the battle line will be very long. Once they send troops, even if they choose the nearest route, it will take at least four or four times to go back and forth. In fifty days, as long as we let them miss once, we can buy more time."

"That's true."

Budu nodded slightly and added, "However, if we retreat, we won't have so much grazing land. By then, a large number of livestock will starve to death!"

Without enough pasture, livestock will surely starve to death.

They all have no food to eat, how can they still hope to feed their livestock?

"Our livestock have no chance of starving to death!"

Jiayao said calmly: "If we want to last until the autumn harvest, we have to kill a lot of livestock!"

starve?

Think more!

If there are many livestock, some livestock may starve to death!

All the livestock have been eaten by people, so how could so many livestock starve to death?

They have lost too many livestock since the start of winter last year.

How could there be so many livestock starving to death?

When Ga Yao said this, Fudu suddenly stopped talking.

Because what Ga Yao said is true.

While they were talking, a guard hurried in and whispered in Gayao's ear.

"asshole!"

Jia Yao was instantly furious, "What on earth do those 10,000 troops in the west do? Let such a small group of enemies attack our tribe all day long under our noses?"

Not all frowned, "Has another tribe been attacked?"

"Ah."

Jiayao nodded with a frosty face and gritted his teeth and said: "Last night, a tribe in the west was attacked again by that small group of enemies, and more than fifty people were killed..."

This kind of thing has happened six times during this period.

Some are targeted at grazing herders and livestock, and some are targeted at individual tribes.

Counting last night, this is already the seventh time!

Seven times!

They lost four or five hundred people!

Although not many people were lost, it was disgusting!

This enemy doesn't even spare livestock!

Just a few days ago, several herdsmen grazing were killed, and all of their hundreds of sheep were killed.

Not even the lamb was spared!

But they didn't even know how many people there were in that small group of enemies.

Now, all the tribes in the west are in panic, and some tribes even say that these people are evil spirits seeking their lives.

But Jia Yao knew that this small group of enemies must have been sent by Yunzheng!

Yunzheng wanted to use this method to continuously consume their power.

It's not like she didn't have someone deal with that small group of enemies.

But that small group of enemies came and went like the wind, appearing and disappearing and could not be found at all.

She had previously sent all the wolves she had tamed to He Asu!

But still can't find the enemy.

Now, many tribes in the west are made suspicious.

The small pursuit troops sent by He Asu before were almost shot and killed by the tribesmen as enemies.

Looking at the livid face of Jia Yao, he couldn't help but sigh softly, and then gritted his teeth and said: "Anyway, the princess plans to retreat again, so let the tribes start retreating! I will personally take people to find these people! I don't believe it , they really are evil spirits that come and go without a trace!"

"it is good!"

Jia Yao nodded heavily, "Teacher, please be careful, this enemy is certainly not simple!"

"Yeah! I'll take people there now!"

Fudu said and quickly exited.

Looking at Fudu's figure, Gaoyao couldn't help but think secretly.

Should I also train such a small group of elite soldiers to do the same thing over there?

After pondering for a moment, Jia Yao raised his eyes and looked at the two of them, "Look back, this princess will draft a letter of credence for peace. You two will go to Daqian Imperial City as envoys to ask for peace from Emperor Daqian..."